Beekeeping is a very important activity because of its economic, social and ecologic impact. In Mexico, this activity generates revenue, income and employment to people and is closely related with agriculture. The following work is a documentary study that seeks to explain the situation of honey...

Biological invasions have ecological impacts worldwide with potential massive economic costs. Among other ecosystem services, invasive alien species are particularly known to impact pollination. By predating honey bees (Apis mellifera), the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)...

Apiculture as a branch of agriculture bases on bee's instinct to store food supplies over consumption need. supplies that are used by the beekeeper. From the technical-scientific and socio-economic evolution point of view. it caused the increase of food and the diversity of its range. Apiculture...

The paper presents natural honey market conjuncture, accentuating the contribution of EU28 (European Union 28) and BRICS countries (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) to the world market competitiveness. The presented countries hold more than a half of natural honey world...

Fraudulent activities in the international honey market affect 10% of food, and cost the global food market $50 billion per annum. Although many developed countries have created regulations to combat food fraud, illegally imported honey, especially originating from China, still enters through...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used for the improvement of the environmental performance of products and services, including food systems. Amongst them, however, honey appears to have been rarely analysed. Furthermore, the pollination by honeybees can be regarded as one of the...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used for the improvement of the environmental performance of products and services, including food systems. Amongst them, however, honey appears to have been rarely analysed. Furthermore, the pollination by honeybees can be regarded as one of the...

Romanian honey, a food product of higher quality compared to that obtained in other European countries, is exported extensively (50-60% of the total production). Currently, the Romanian beekeepers are facing the tough competition of the low prices of the honey imported from Ukraine, Poland and...

This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a road map for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together governmental and non‐governmental institutions,...

This paper aims to approach Brazilian exportations of natural honey regarding its competiveness. Said exportation activities performance was estimated using the Constant Market Share Model, during 2000 and 2011. Competiveness growth during 2000-2011, 99,74%, might be attributed to competiveness...

Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great impact on household income. Though the study area has great potential of honey production, the farmers in the study area faced the marketing problem in choice of appropriate honey...

Marketing outlets choice is one of the most important farm household decisions to sell their produce and has a great impact on household income. Though the study area has great potential of honey production, the farmers in the study area faced the marketing problem in choice of appropriate honey...

Die Studie hat zum Ziel, einen Überblick über den deutschen Markt für Honig zu geben. Es werden die Imkereistruktur und die Beziehungen zwischen den Marktpartnern dargestellt. Daneben werden die Versorgungsbilanz sowie die Nachfrage betrachtet, bei der Deutschland als einer der größten...

Die Studie hat zum Ziel, einen Überblick über den deutschen Markt für Honig zu geben. Es werden die Imkereistruktur und die Beziehungen zwischen den Marktpartnern dargestellt. Daneben werden die Versorgungsbilanz sowie die Nachfrage betrachtet, bei der Deutschland als einer der größten...

It is clear that the National Beekeeping Programme was a true support for Romanian beekeepers, contributing to the development of this branch of agriculture with important sums of money that they could access reflected both in the number of bee colonies and the the quantity of honey valued....

It is clear that the National Beekeeping Programme was a true support for Romanian beekeepers, contributing to the development of this branch of agriculture with important sums of money that they could access reflected both in the number of bee colonies and the the quantity of honey valued....

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In Mexico the apicultural production has been developed like an excellent activity basically because it represents an important generating source of use in the marginalized zones of the country, as well as one of the main capturing currency activities within the cattle subsector. Under this...

Así mismo, la apicultura es la actividad que mejor distribuye la riqueza en el campo yucateco, el cual cuenta con aproximadamente 10,153 apicultores, los cuales son de extracción campesina. Una situación que poco favorece al mercado internacional de la miel yucateca es la reincorporación al...

The Technical Working Group (TWG) for Maize of the European Coexistence Bureau (ECoB) analysed in 2010 the best practices for coexistence between GM maize crop production with non-GM maize . In this document the analysis is extended to the coexistence between GM maize crop production and honey...

This Test Guideline describes a chronic oral toxicity test on adult worker honey bees under laboratory conditions over an exposure period of 10 days. Young bees (max. 2 days old) are exposed to 50 % (w/v) aqueous sucrose solution containing the test chemical by continuous and ad libitum feeding...

A study was conducted in the mountains (Nyiru, Ndoto and Marsabit) of northern Kenya to determine the quality of honey processed and stored by honey processors and traders. Twelve processed and stored honey samples were randomly collected from processing groups and honey traders in three honey...

Southwest parts of Ethiopia particularly Kaffa, Sheka and Bench-Maji zones are endowed with very diverse and dense natural forests. This favours for the existence of dense honeybee population and production of large volume of honey. However, detail information on honey production systems of the...

Its diverse agroecology has endowed Ethiopia with enormous honey production potential in Africa. Nevertheless, due to the undeveloped production system and poor market linkage with the global arena, the country could not fetch proportional benefits from this resource. To enhance better...

This study was undertaken to determine whether Cal Poly affiliated people were interested in purchasing Cal Poly honey online through its own web store. In addition to determining the level of interest, the target market was examined to explore how to market Cal Poly honey more effectively. The...

Its diverse agroecology has endowed Ethiopia with enormous honey production potential in Africa. Nevertheless, due to the undeveloped production system and poor market linkage with the global arena, the country could not fetch proportional benefits from this resource. To enhance better...

Beekeeping is an activity of great socioeconomic importance in Mexico, since 80% of beekeepers are resource-poor farmers; it is among the top three of the livestock subsector and is a source of foreign exchange activity, over the 80% of the production from 59.00 tons approximately, is exported....

The article attempts to present the present situation and the basic information about the state and perspectives of the development of beekeeping in rural areas in Poland with regard to the regional honey varieties. It describes the past and future potential dangers resulting from the initial...

The Mexican honey industry is composed by around of 40,000 honey producers with 2 millionof beehives. It has been the result that Mexico is the fourth producer and exporter in the world.In the year 2004, Delicias had 14,115 beehives which produced 443.3 tons of honey with avalue of 14.8 millions...

Honey is a by‐product of the pollination of plants and essential to almost all agricultural plant product. Demand for honey provides a partial compensation for the pollination services. Hence, programs to support honey demand such as promotions are potentially very important to the...

The Mexican honey industry is composed by around of 40,000 honey producers with 2 million of beehives. It has been the result that Mexico is the fourth producer and exporter in the world. In the year 2004, Delicias had 14,115 beehives which produced 443.3 tons of honey with a value of 14.8...

The study researched the costs and returns on typical small beekeeping farms from five districts in Serbia. On the basis of the field research, data on the number of beehives, type of product, volume of production per beehive and values per measurement unit were collected. In order to...

This research describes and analyzes the commercial actions being conducted in six groups ofproducers bee located on the periphery of the state capital of Puebla, Mexico. We study theguidelines that have developed around the marketing as a discipline dedicated to analysis andimplications of...

Honey production and trade in the world are introduced. Total output of honey shows an increasing trend while the output of Chinese honey always ranks the first in the world. China, Argentina, Mexico are the major exporters of honey. In the year 2006, honey exports of China, Argentina and Mexico...